Camping on a bunch of kicking LSDJ tunes, not able to decide if they're "done" enough for album release and going through shopping for a netlabel to put them out on.Waiting to buy nanoloop mono hoping that mono+LSDJ is the sonic breakthrough I'm hoping for.

April FooLs! Now your dreams will never come true! Just kidding, that's not how dreams work.

I'm almost done with a very distinctive iPhone tracker. It's sample based so I'm using it to make a breakcore song, which is pretty fun. I'll show the song to people probably...mostly excited for the tracker.

* Still working as game effects/3d artist at indie studio.* Still making electronic/chiptune combo. Not a lot of Gameboy sadly as of late, fell off a little bit for now. But still LSDJ on emu.* Finally doing effort "re-studying" programming, primarily C++, Python and C#. I should learn a few more languages but uh. Time.* Finally doing effort studying cyber security/"internet stuff" after YEARS of wanting to but just not doing it.

I feel fine! Hope I can make this last, too- and learn quickly since I feel like I've been a stagnated turd for far too long. I just wanna freaking GO AT LIKE A MILLION MILES AN HOUR AND then crash into a wall without a helmet.

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- work is getting so fkn boring that I feel like I'm losing knowledge; I essentially spend a lot of time showing vendors in India how to do my job, checking their work and hoping to be made redundant (and/or stick around for one more year so I can quit and get my long service leave paid out), it's causing a bit of an existential crisis and I may lose my mind if I don't do something about it- music time at home is getting rarer and it's hard to block out a good few hours to just make some tunes in the studio; as a result I am still using nanoloop2 more than any of my more professional gear, simply because I can use it on my lunchbreak.. I have tons of new gear to learn and dig into though, and am not sure when I'll get that chance- not as many people seem to "get" why I want to make minimalist, super repetitive "chip but doesn't sound like chip" music as I initially expected

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- I watched Cuckoo's video interview with the bastl guys (here if you haven't seen it) and while it made me depressed at how my job is super dull in comparison, it gave me inspiration to get back into electronic engineering and maybe follow in the footsteps of my dad, who owned a successful music instrument/amp repairs business for many years, and is also an inventor. - new musical collaborations are looking promising- I finally have a nord lead after 15 years of desiring one- as an aside to the last negative point, I am coming to terms with the fact that I'm a borderline outsider in the chip scene, and fuck it, I'm gonna make my music as minimalist/sound design focused as I want

chunter wrote:

tony banks is my hero, he's got such a good sense of writing weird chord progressions that are somehow still really catchy.